Iraq is planning to start executing 128 people this week, many of who are thought to be gay.
Iraqi LGBT, a UK-based organisation of Iraqis which tries to protect queers in the country, says that five of the people on death row are their campaigners in Iraq. And they believe that many more are gay.
Amnesty International has confirmed that the Iraqi authorities are planning to start killing the prisoners in batches of 20, starting this week.
Amnesty has also called on the Iraqi authorities to publish the full names and details of those who are going to be judicially murdered and to explain the charges against them. The world-wide human rights organisation is worried many of them may have only confessed to crimes under torture.
The death penalty was re-introduced in 2004 in Iraq and since 2005, Iraqi LGBT claims that 17 of its workers have been killed by the country's interior forces or have "disappeared".
Ali Hili of Iraqi LGBT said the five gay people on the list he knows about may be the tip of the iceberg.
He told Pink Paper: "I believe there are many more among the 128. Most of the people haven't been told the reason why they have been sentenced to death and there have been so many raids on gay parties and round-ups recently."
Pink Paper is awaiting responses from the Iraqi Embassy in London and tje Foreign Office about whether they are going to intervene, as Britain still has troops in the country and has been training the local police.